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Hey, the “go bak 2 the kitchen u ugly bitch” is wrong. It is often grown men, of the frat-boy/dudebro variety, that like that. Twelve year olds don’t say that unless they have an older idiot to teach them that.

I want an operating policy that is independent of “man / woman”; “abled / disabled”; “straight / gay / transgendered / other”. Rather like Rawls’ “veil of ignorance”: we should be comfortable with the principles without concern about what role we will play.

Dammit. I had already dropped Dilbert from my reading in part because of Adams’ idiotic blather on feminism (also because he’s obviously dried up whatever creativity he once had, but I still read lots of comics that would get cut if that was my only criteria for doing so–habit is a killer time-suck), and so I’d missed out on his rape-apologia. So when I saw this list, I was surprised that he got that particular entry. So I Googled, and found the column. It really was that bad, if not worse.

While I do ID as a feminist, I do kind of support the many trans* women (and non-binary people) who don’t because of that whole history of vicious transphobia that is still ongoing thing. Same as I support and understand that some women of colour don’t wanna stand under this umbrella because of the similarly awful history regarding race.

Oh, and I’d love to see your citations on who misogynists “hate the most.” This isn’t Oppression Olympics, and being on one axis of oppression doesn’t automatically give a person empathy for people on another axis.

Why are you linking me a wiki article as if I don’t know anything about her? I said I have read her book on the issue and there is more information there about what Sheila Jeffrey thinks than in some wiki. You should read it too.

And the other link is just some people who don’t want her at some conference. It happens a lot. What has that got to do with anything? Anyway, an excerpt… “encourage clients to take a more political approach to their situation and to realize that they can rebel against the constraints of a prescribed gender role, and relate to their own sex in their native bodies. “. Sounds like feminism to me. Full of good things.

Thans for mansplaining feminism, Jose. And no, the fact that she’s too dumb to tell gender roles, sex and gender identity apart does not “sound like feminism” to anyone who isn’t a TERF. She literally claims trans people are doing violence by existing.

Hey Ophelia, you know how I was mentioning good reasons why transfeminists stay the hell away from much of the mainstream rich white cis lady feminism? Assholes like this, and the fact that they usually do undisputed.

Jose, like Happiestsadist said, you do not get to tell trans* people what’s transphobic and what isn’t. You also don’t get to mansplain feminism to women (or female-assigned genderqueer folks like HS, for that matter).

Hey Ophelia, you know how I was mentioning good reasons why transfeminists stay the hell away from much of the mainstream rich white cis lady feminism? Assholes like this, and the fact that they usually do undisputed.

Seriously. Transfeminists don’t want to see their identities and lives up for debate among cis women any more than women in general want to see ours up for debate among men.